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Woman's Hour

Female Astronauts, Second Chances, Jackie Weaver, Celebs and the male gaze

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A total of 65 women have been into space - compared with 501 men. The last time the European Space Agency recruited for their Class of 2009, only 16% of applications came from women. That process led to Just one - Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy - being chosen. In a break from training for a 2022 mission to the International Space Station, Samantha joins Emma to discuss why so few women apply to be astronauts, the skills needed to make it in space, and how women can put themselves forward for ESA's latest recruitment drive.

Jackie Weaver of local council zoom meeting fame talks about her night at the BRITS.

Our series Second Chances continues. This time we hear how a mother's addiction and domestic violence are often factors in a child's removal. The reporter and DJ Milly Chowles became a mum last year, she’s in long term recovery from addiction and had lots of chances to change. Having a baby after getting into recovery made her realise that other mothers aren't getting the help they need or that they just aren't able to take it when it's offered. And after Taylor Swift talked about the challenges of being a woman in the public eye at the BRITS last night, we ask if women really can be anything they want? Can they change their image and wear and do what they want? We talk to Emily Clarkson and Dr. Jacki Willson.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Engineers: Nigel Dix & Donald MacDonald.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

0:06.8

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

0:11.8

telly we share what we've been watching

0:14.0

Fladiated.

0:16.0

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

0:25.0

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:35.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.0

Good morning.

0:41.0

Today we're talking about women, ambition and proving critics wrong, defying the expectations

0:45.8

that people may have of you. While an excellent night for women at the Brit Awards who stormed

0:51.2

the board at those musical awards wars there was a theme of women

0:54.1

talking about how important it was to claim their space, use their voice and

0:58.2

prevail over forces around them. From Leanne Pinock of Little Mix who made history becoming the first all-female group

1:05.0

to win the best British group award, she said, it's not easy being a female in the UK pop

1:10.0

industry. We've seen white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of diversity.

1:15.2

We're proud of how we stuck together, stood our ground, surrounded ourselves with strong

1:19.2

women and are now using our voices more than ever.

1:21.8

To Taylor Swift, who won the Global Icon Award

1:24.2

who had this to say.

1:25.6

We live in a world where anyone has the right to say anything that they want about you at any

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